E-mail from BP rig says cement job ‘went well’ (according to Halliburton emp)

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Source: FT

A Halliburton employee on the Deepwater Horizon sent an e-mail to a colleague on the day the rig exploded indicating that cementing of the well had been completed and “it went well”.

The e-mail exchange, which has been seen by the Financial Times, will add to a growing debate about the decisions taken in the run-up to the cementing of the well before its rupture on April 20, which led to 11 workers being killed and a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.


The e-mail, by cementer Nathaniel Chaisson, to Jesse Gagliano, Halliburton’s account representative, was sent in the early morning of April 20.

Three days after the explosion, on April 23, Mr Gagliano sent an e-mail to Mark Hafle, senior drilling engineer at BP, which operated the well, attaching the “post job” report from the “engineer in location”. The report detailed items including that the cement job was “pumped as planned”.

Testifying on Tuesday in an investigation of the accident by the US Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Management, Mr Gagliano clarified that in Halliburton staff discussing a job well done, they were referring to the company having done what it was directed to do. He was not commenting on whether Halliburton approved of what was done.

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